Supporting Transformative Research Through Regional Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Gary Crane, Director IT Initiatives SC08 Austin, TX

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1 Supporting Transformative Research Through Regional Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Gary Crane, Director IT Initiatives SC08 Austin, TX

2 Agenda About SURA About SURAgrid SURAgrid Goals & Activities SURAgrid Supported Research

3 SURA Mission SURA is a 501(c)3 university association with 63 member institutions whose mission is to: Foster excellence in scientific research Strengthen the scientific and technical capabilities of the nation and the Southeast Provide outstanding training opportunities for the next generation of scientists and engineers

4 37% of the US population 10 EPSCoR states 95% of the nation s Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) 22% of the nation s Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) SURA Region

5 SURA Programs Jefferson Lab DOE Office of Science to probe nucleus of atom and study quark structure of matter SCOOP DOD Office of Naval Research/NOAA to provide IT glue to integrate coastal research components Information Technology - to build cyberinfrastructure foundation (the integration of high performance computing and networking) to support SURA s scientific and research programs Relations to formulate and sustain internal and external relations strategy and support for SURA s scientific and research programs

6 Lowering Barriers for Deploying and Utilizing CyberInfrastructure 35 Institutions Shared accessible grid computing environment Access to group negotiated discounted HPC systems Enabling CI supported research & education On-Ramp to National CI

7 Members (26 contributing, 9 participating) Contributing Members 1 University of Alabama at Birmingham 2 University of Alabama in Huntsville 3 University of Arkansas 4 University of Florida 5 George Mason University 6 University of Georgia 7 Georgia State University 8 Kennesaw State University 9 University of Kentucky 10 Louisiana State University 11 Louisiana Tech University 12 University of Maryland 13 University of Miami 14 University of Michigan ATLAS Computing 15 Mississippi Center for SuperComputing 16 Norfolk State University 17 University of North Carolina, Charlotte 18 Old Dominion University 19 University of South Carolina 20 Southeastern Universities Research 21 Stephen F. Austin State University 22 Texas A&M University 23 Texas Advanced Computing Center 24 Texas Tech 25 Vanderbilt University 26 University of Virginia Participating Members 1 University of Central Florida 2 Clemson University 3 Great Plains Network 4 Hampton University 5 University of Louisiana at Lafayette 6 North Carolina State University 7 Rochester Institute of Technology 8 University of Southern California 9 Wake Forest University

8 Active Governance Structure SURAgrid Vision Promote excellence for research and education enterprises by fostering collaborative engagement in cyberinfrastructure across the SURA region. SURAgrid Mission SURAgrid provides a community for collaborative development and use of cyberinfrastructure services to support the research and education missions of our membership.

9 SURAgrid Goals Develop a research outreach program to identify new users and new uses for the evolving regional and national computational and collaborative cyberinfrastructure available to the SURA region. Plan, manage and support the SURAgrid infrastructure to provide a solid foundation for the evolution of SURA region research and education programs. Develop a communications strategy for SURAgrid. Develop a sustainability model for SURAgrid. Strengthen existing and develop new corporate and organizational partnerships focused on improving regional use of Cyberinfrastructure (CI) services.

10 Major Areas of Activity Application Discovery & Deployment Outreach & Community Building Access Management Services Grid-Building Corporate Partnerships

11 Community Cyberinfrastructure Institutions Resources CPUs Peak TFlops GBytes Memory GBytes disk September 2005 October 2006 November 2007 November , , , ,626 56, , ,484 54,292

12 SURAgrid Access Management Model SURAgrid Infrastructure: Resources, Services, Communities, etc. Outside CyberInfrastructure Org CAs Campus CAs SURAgrid Bridge CA Trust SURAgrid CA Federation Non SURAgrid Campus/Regional Cyberinfrastructure National Cyberinfrastructures Dept. CA Users/Apps SURA MS CA Users/Apps Users/Apps Users/Apps Corporate Resources

13 SURA Corporate Partnerships Significant product discounts Owned and operated by SURAgrid participants Integrated into SURAgrid with 20% of capacity available to SURAgrid pool IBM p575 1 and 2 TF configurations IBM e1350 Linux 1 rack 3 TF and 2 rack 6 TF configurations Dell PowerEdge 1950 Single rack 2TF configuration Microsoft funded Windows HPC Server Pilot Program

14 SURA Coastal Ocean Observing and Prediction Immediate deployment collaboration Multiple scenarios: 24x7 forecasting, retrospective analysis

15 Climate Modeling with CAM3 Figure 4 Model sensitivity Sea Level Pressure (hpa) Slab Ocean minus Data Ocean: Nov-Apr Impacts of Northern Hemisphere snowcover and sea surface temperature anomalies on atmospheric circulation Gina Henderson (PhD student) Department of Geography, University of Delaware Simulations run on SURAgrid IBM System p575 janus.gsu.edu Figure 5 Slab Ocean minus Data Ocean: Nov-Apr

16 GSU Virtual Screening for Computational Chemistry DB Compounds Bind to Minor Groove of DNA Researcher: Maryam Rahimian Chemistry PhD student Georgia State IBM System p5 on SURAgrid enables larger more realistic models

17 NCSU Simulation-Optimization for Threat Management in Urban Water Systems Demonstration of On-Ramp capabilities SURAgrid provides compute resource heterogeneity, low overhead to participate Staging on SURAgrid, uncovers programming and workflow problems prior to porting to TeraGRID

18 TTU - SURAgrid Collaboration SURAgrid Governance Committee TTU Technical Support Developed Package Stack Installation Grid Technology Virtual Office Hours Access Management Working Group SURAgrid OSG Interaction SURAgrid Technology Infrastructure Planning Working Group

19 Q & A Gary Crane, gcrane@sura.org